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Everything you need to prepare for your technical interview
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Algorithms
Books
- Jeff Erickson - Algorithms
- Steven Skiena – The Algorithm Design Manual
- Udi Manber – Introduction to Algorithms: A Creative Approach
- Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein – Introduction to Algorithms
- Sedgewick, Wayne – Algorithms
- Antti Laaksonen – Competitive Programmer's Handbook
- Steven & Felix Halim – Competitive Programming
- Jon Bentley – Programming Pearls
- E-Maxx Algorithms
- vhf/free-programming-books
- it-ebooks.info
- S. Dasgupta, C. H. Papadimitriou, and U. V. Vazirani -Algorithms
Coding practice
- LeetCode
- LeetCode w/ Explanations labuladong/fucking-algorithm
- InterviewBit
- Codility
- Intervue.io
- HackerRank
- Project Euler
- Spoj
- Google Code Jam practice problems
- HackerEarth
- Top Coder
- CodeChef
- Codewars
- CodeSignal
- CodeKata
- Firecode
- CoderPad
- Exercism
Guides
- GeeksForGeeks – A CS portal for geeks
- Learneroo – Algorithms
- Top Coder tutorials
- Infoarena training path (RO)
- Steven & Felix Halim – Increasing the Lower Bound of Programming Contests (UVA Online Judge)
Misc
- Top 10 Algorithms in Interview Questions
- Hard interview questions that have a short recursive solution
- Grow Your Technical Skills with Google
- JavaScript Algorithms and Data Structures
- Data Structure Interview Questions
Guides
Articles
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Steve Yegge – Get That Job at Google
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Steve Yegge – Ten Tips for a (Slightly) Less Awful Resume
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Carlos Bueno – Get That Job at Facebook
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Daniel Blumenthal – How to Prepare for Technical Interviews
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David Byttow – ABC: Always Be Coding
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David Byttow – Four Steps to Google, Without a Degree
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Thomas L. Friedman – How to Get a Job at Google [part 1] [part 2]
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Andrew Rothbart – Preparing for a technical interview with programming contests
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Mina Azib – Resources for Preparing for the Google Interview
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Bill Sourour – How To Win the Coding Interview
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Ammon Bartram – How To Pass a Programming Interview
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Tony Wu - Medium Blog
- Guide for Behavioral Interviews
- Mastering the Remote System Design Interview
- Backend Coding Interview Prep
- Frontend Coding Interview Prep
- Questions for your Interviewer
- General Interview Prepation
- Behavioral Interviews: Stories (TMW)
- Guide to Technical Presentations / Retrospectives
- Smarter Way to Prep for System Design (Backend)
Books
- Gayle McDowell – The Google Resume
- Gayle McDowell – Cracking the Coding Interview
- Giguere, Mongan, Kindler – Programming Interviews Exposed
- Aziz, Lee, Prakash – Elements of Programming Interviews [code]
- Narashima Karumanchi – Coding Interview Questions
Courses
- MIT – Hacking a Google Interview
- Coderust 2.0 ($$)
- Interview Cake ($$$) [review]
- How to Ace the Software Engineering Interview ($$)
- Grokking the System Design Interview ($$)
- Algorithms: Design and Analysis
- Algorithms and Data Structures - Part 1
- Algorithms and Data Structures - Part 2
Misc
- Pramp - Top 8 Mistakes in Technical Interviews According to Data
- Joel Spolsky – The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (v.3)
- Steve Yegge – Done, and Gets Things Smart
- Steve Yegge – Five Essential Phone Interview Questions
- Daniel Blumenthal – Questions I Want to Ask, but Can't
- 50+ Interviews with Facebook, Twitter, Amazon & others
- Technical Interviews Make Me Cry
- How I hustled my way to a developer job at Khan Academy
- How does an interviewer define the difficulty level of a question?
- Aaron Swartz – How I Hire Programmers
- Phil Calçado – On Asking Job Candidates to Code
- Moxie Marlinspike – Career Advice
- Dan Luu – We Only Hire the Trendiest
- Reginald Long – How I went from failing every interview to a job at Amazon
- Shivan Kaul Sahib - 'Clean your desk' : My Amazon interview experience
- Key Values - A website which helps to find the best team due to your values
- Laurie Voss - You suck at technical interviews
- Google's "Director of Engineering" Hiring Test
- IT-Career useful links
- Resume helper
Mock interviews
- interviewing.io
- mockinterview.app
- Pramp "Practice coding interviews for free"
- Refdash
- Gainlo
- Candidacy.io
- Skilled
- Meetapro "Experienced FAANG interviewers"
Q&A
- How to prepare for my Google/Facebook interview if I have 6 months left?
- How should I prepare for my Google interview if I have 1 month left?
- What is the best advice for an engineering internship interview at Google or Facebook?
- What graph topics should I study in order to be adequately prepared for a Google Software Engineer interview?
Sites
- Coding for Interviews
- Career Cup
- HiredInTech
- Codela
- TestDome
- FreeCodeCamp "Learn to code and help nonprofits"
- Dynamic Programming Practice Problems
- Codility Lessons
- Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science
- Scaler Topics
Videos
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How to: Work at Google – Candidate Coaching Session for Technical Interviewing [45:45]
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Gayle McDowell – Cracking the Coding Interview [1:14:24]
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Gayle McDowell - Cracking the Coding Interview (examples) [9:05]
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Google Recruiters Share Non-Technical Interview Tips [28:23]
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Moishe Lettvin – What I Learned Doing 250 Interviews at Google [1:00:24]
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Sean Lee – How to Get a Job at the Big 4 [42:34]
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Ladies Storm Hackathons – Interview Prep Round 1: Strings, Arrays, Linked Lists [1:12:39]
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Randall Koutnik – Rethinking the Developer Career Path [25:03]
Languages and technologies
Android
ASP.NET
- Shailendra Chauhan – ASP.NET MVC Interview Questions & Answers
- Top 10 ASP.NET MVC Interview Questions
- ASP.NET Interview Questions
C#
Go
JavaScript
- Free books by Dr. Axel Rauschmayer
- You Don't Know JS
- Superhero.js
- h5bp/Front-end-Developer-Interview-Questions
- Javascript Interview Questions and Answers
- JavaScript Modern Interview Code Challenges
Node
PHP
Python
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python
- quantifiedcode/python-anti-patterns
- The Insider's Guide to Python Interviewing
- Book: Elements of Programming Interviews in Python
- Python Interview Questions
React
- markerikson/react-redux-links
- 12 Essential React.js Interview Questions
- React Interview Questions
- React Interview Questions and Answers
Other topics
Crypto
- Coursera, Stanford, Dan Boneh – Cryptography I
- Boneh, Shoup – A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography
- The Cryptopals Crypto Challenges
- Praetorian Tech Challenges
- Cryptography Services Challenges
Funny
- Aphyr – Reversing the technical interview
- Aphyr – Hexing the technical interview
- Aphyr – Typing the technical interview
Maths
- MIT - Mathematics for Computer Science
- Graham, Knuth, Patashnik – Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science
- Bogart, Drysdale, Stein – Discrete Math for Computer Science Students
Networking
- Joyent – TCP Puzzlers
- Andrew Tanenbaum – Computer Networks
- Kurose, Ross – Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach
- W. Richard Stevens – TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol. 1: The Protocols
- W. Richard Stevens – UNIX Network Programming
Operating systems
- UCB CS162 Operating Systems [class] [videos]
- The Eudyptula Challenge
- What is the difference between a process and a thread?
- OS Interview Questions
System design
- System Design Newsletter by Neo Kim
- ML Eng Interview Guide by Patrick Halina
- Ticket Sales Site
- donnemartin/system-design-primer
- Grokking the System Design Interview
- This is a paid course but has several free previews such as Designing Instagram
- binhnguyennus/awesome-scalability
- Architecture of Open Source Applications
- How should I prepare system design questions for Google/Facebook interview?
- Jeff Atwood – How Good an Estimator Are You?
- 0xAX/linux-insides
Advanced but great:
- Brendan Burns - Designing Distributed Systems [pdf]
- Raph Levien – Rope Science
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